Charles Lawrence: Kids should feel free to act like the president

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Apr 21, 2017 at 5:31 PMApr 21, 2017 at 5:31 PM

Good news for our kids! They don’t have to brush their teeth and say their prayers anymore! No need to even cross their hearts and hope to die when they make a promise they intend to break. They're free to do as they please, provided they live in Kent County.

That’s because Brown University reports that 43 percent of those who live in Kent County think Donald Trump is doing a good to excellent job. ("Kent Co. still in Trump's Corner," April 19). Not just fair or tolerable, but good to excellent! That in spite of the disastrous Muslim ban, the failure on health-care reform, stonewalling on tax returns, connections to Russia and obsessive lying about the size of his electoral victory.

Trump hasn’t told the truth about Obama, Clinton or Rice, the news media, voter fraud and more. The grownups don’t care, so why should they be concerned if they lie about what happened to their homework?

He doesn’t care about clean air and water — and the parents approve. The kids should remember that the next time the parents tell them to clean up their rooms.

And if Trump says one thing one day and something totally different the next, why should parents worry about doing the same?

The next time the parents catch the children saying something that seems untrue, the children should say they are relying on “alternate facts,” just like the president.